6th Gauteng Provincial Legislature | |||||
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Overview | |||||
Legislative body | Gauteng Provincial Legislature | ||||
Jurisdiction | Gauteng, South Africa | ||||
Meeting place | Johannesburg City Hall | ||||
Term | 22 May 2019 – 28 May 2024 | ||||
Election | 8 May 2019 | ||||
Members | 73 | ||||
Speaker | Ntombi Mekgwe | ||||
Deputy Speaker | Nomvuyo Mhlakaza-Manamela | ||||
Premier | Panyaza Lesufi | ||||
Leader of the Opposition | Solly Msimanga |
This is a list of members of the sixth Gauteng Provincial Legislature, as elected in the election of 8 May 2019 and taking into account changes in membership since the election. [1] The legislature dissolved at midnight on 28 May 2024 and was succeeded by the 7th legislature.
Party | Seats | |
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African National Congress | 37 | |
DA | 20 | |
Economic Freedom Fighters | 11 | |
VF+ | 3 | |
Inkatha Freedom Party | 1 | |
African Christian Democratic Party | 1 | |
Total | 73 |
This is a graphical comparison of party strengths as they are in the 6th Gauteng Provincial Legislature.
In the ANC caucus, former members included Thuliswa Nkabinde-Khawe (died November 2019), [2] Kgosientso Ramokgopa (resigned November 2019), [3] Mapiti Matsena (died July 2020), [4] Dumisani Dakile (sworn in June 2019, resigned November 2020), [5] [6] Lindiwe Lasindwa (died August 2021), [7] former Premier David Makhura (resigned October 2022), [8] and Petrus Mabunda (resigned February 2023). [9] [ self-published source ] Parks Tau was elected to a seat in May 2019 but left to join the national government shortly after the beginning of the legislative term; [10] he returned to the provincial legislature in November 2020, but resigned again in February 2023. [6] [11] In addition to Dakile and Tau, other midterm additions to the legislature included Thulani Ndlovu (from November 2019, replacing Nkabinde-Khawe); [12] [ self-published source ] Greg Schneemann (from August 2020); [13] [ self-published source ] Maphefo Mogale-Letsie (September 2021); [14] and Tshilidzi Munyai and Matshidiso Mfikoe, who replaced Mabunda and Tau (February 2023). [11]
In the DA caucus, former members included John Moodey (resigned September 2020) [15] and Michael Shackleton (resigned April 2022), [16] both of whom defected to ActionSA.
Gwen Malegwale Ramokgopa is a South African politician who was elected the Treasurer-General of the governing African National Congress (ANC) in December 2022. She was formerly the Deputy Minister of Health under President Jacob Zuma from October 2010 to May 2014.
Mpho Franklyn Parks Tau is a South African politician who has been a Deputy Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs since March 2023 and a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa since February 2023, representing the African National Congress. Before becoming a member of Parliament, Tau had been a Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature where he served in the Gauteng Executive Council as MEC for Economic Development from December 2020 to October 2022. Prior to that, he was Deputy Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs between May 2019 and December 2020.
Solly Tshepiso Msimanga is a South African politician serving as the Leader of the Opposition in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature since May 2019. He has been a Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature since February 2019, having previously served from 2014 to 2016. Msimanga was the Executive Mayor of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality from 2016 to 2019 and the DA Provincial Chairperson from 2014 to 2017. He is currently the Democratic Alliance's Gauteng Premier candidate for the 2024 elections. Msimanga was the party's unsuccessful candidate for the 2019 elections.
Andrek "Panyaza" Lesufi is a South African politician who was appointed the seventh Premier of Gauteng in October 2022. He was previously Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Education in the Gauteng provincial government between May 2014 and October 2022, with the exception of a two-day stint as MEC for Finance in May 2019. Simultaneously, he was acting MEC for Social Development between November 2019 and June 2020.
Thuliswa Winlove Nkabinde-Khawe was a South African politician and a party member of the African National Congress (ANC). She was elected a Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature in May 2009 and was a long-serving member of the Social Development committee in the legislature, prior to her appointment as Gauteng MEC for Social Development in May 2019. She was an MEC until her death just over five months later.
John Clifford Moodey is a South African politician who served as the Provincial Leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA) in Gauteng from 2007 to 2010 and from 2012 to 2020. Moodey was a Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature from 2004 to 2020 and served as Leader of the Opposition from 2014 to 2019. He was the party's Shadow MEC for Community Safety.
Audrey Winifred Morakane Ketlhoilwe Mosupyoe, known as Morakane Mosupyoe, is a South African politician serving as the speaker of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature since June 2024. She was the Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Economic Development, Agriculture and Environment from October 2019 to December 2020, the MEC for Social Development from December 2020 until October 2022 and the MEC for Sports, Arts, Culture and Recreation from October 2022 until June 2024. Prior to her election to the Gauteng Provincial Legislature in 2019, she served as a Tshwane city councillor. Mosupyoe is a member of the African National Congress.
Nkele Molapo is a South African politician who represented the Democratic Alliance in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature from May 2019 until her expulsion from the party in October 2020.
Mbali Dawn Hlophe is a South African politician. She has served as the Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Social Development, Agriculture and Rural Development in Gauteng since October 2022. She had previously served as the MEC for Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation from May 2019 to October 2022. A member of the African National Congress, she has been a Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature since May 2019.
Nomathemba Emily Mokgethi is a South African politician who served as the Gauteng Health MEC from 2020 to 2022 and has been a member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature since 2018. She was the provincial MEC for Social Development between June and December 2020. Mokgethi is a member of the African National Congress.
Mzikayifane Elias Khumalo is a South African African National Congress politician who has been the Gauteng MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, eGovernment and Research and Development since 2022 and a member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature since 2019. He served as the chief whip of majority party in the provincial legislature from May 2019 until October 2022. Previously, he served as the Executive Mayor of the Randfontein Local Municipality from 2015 to 2016 and as the Executive Mayor of the Rand West City Local Municipality from 2016 to 2019.
Kedibone Pauline Diale is a South African politician. She was elected to the Gauteng Provincial Legislature in 2019 as a member of the African National Congress. In October 2022, she was appointed the Member of the Executive Council (MEC) responsible for Transport and Logistics in Gauteng.
The Executive Council of Gauteng is the cabinet of the executive branch of the provincial government in the South African province of Gauteng. The Members of the Executive Council (MECs) are appointed from among the members of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature by the Premier of Gauteng, an office held since October 2022 by Panyaza Lesufi.
Kgosientsho David "Sputla" Ramokgopa is a South African politician who is the Minister in the Presidency responsible for Electricity. He was the Mayor of Tshwane from 2010 to 2016. He was also a Member of the Executive Council in the Gauteng provincial government in 2019 and worked in the Presidency of South Africa as head of infrastructure from 2019 to 2023.
Humphrey Mmemezi is a South African politician and civil servant who has served as a Member of the National Assembly from March 2023. He previously served in the National Assembly between 2014 and 2019 and served as Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Public Works from 2017. He was formerly a Member of the Executive Council for Local Government and Housing in the Gauteng provincial government from 2010 to 2012. He resigned from the provincial government in July 2012 when he was found guilty of contravening the legislature's code of conduct and ethics, including in using his government credit card for personal expenses.
Jacob Khawe is a South African politician who was the Provincial Secretary of the African National Congress (ANC) in Gauteng from 2018 to 2022. He was formerly the Mayor of Emfuleni Local Municipality from 2017 to 2018 and before that he represented the ANC in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature.
Thulani Ndlovu is a South African politician who has represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature since November 2019. An ANC Youth League activist, he has also been a member of the ANC's Provincial Executive Committee in Gauteng since 2022.
Andrias Dumisani Dakile is a South African politician and trade unionist who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature from June 2019 until his resignation in December 2020. He is also a former Provincial Secretary of the Gauteng branch of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu).
Petrus Butana Mabunda is a South African politician who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature from 2019 until his resignation in February 2023. He was elected to the seat in the 2019 general election, ranked 21st on the ANC's provincial party list. He resigned at the beginning of February 2023 and his seat was filled by Tshilidzi Munyai.